Hi my name is Angshuman Nayak, I belong to the Cloud Integration Engineering (CIE) Team and work on issues related to Azure. This blog is intended to help with the following email which most of the Azure users would have received about the removal of older Azure Storage APIs. Action recommended: Upcoming removal of…

Many a times you see errors on Azure management portal while doing an operation. Most of the times you have to open a support incident to resolve the error or know the root cause of the error. Here is a neat trick you can use to collect the diagnostic information from the management…

Recently, I was working with one of my customer, were they were leveraging Windows Azure Service Bus Relay endpoint to connect their Service endpoint with the client. Here customer noticed ‘502 – Bad Gateway" during the load test after hitting more than 100 concurrent users, and I anticipating more customer may face similar kind…

As per this document http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn170478.aspx we have both ways of Authenticating available ACS and SAS. But if I create a Service Bus Namespace there is no ACS option under connection strings. The document above has this statement “For example, if you create a Service Bus namespace called contoso.servicebus.windows.net, a companion ACS namespace called contoso-sb.accesscontrol.windows.net is…

The Azure Networking team has got the Reverse DNS feature out.This article https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/reverse-dns-support-for-azure-cloud-services/ which mentions that it can be done by SMAPI and PowerShell. “Azure Cloud Services supports reverse DNS records for all PaaS and IaaS Cloud Services. This support is backwards compatible with all existing Cloud Services, is supported in the Service Management…

Many times we want to login to an Azure VM when the role is recycling so that we can troubleshoot further. In such case if the RDP is not already enabled then you would first need to enable it. In some cases the RDP fails with below error, Your role instances have recycled…

Recently I helped a customer on an issue where they were following instructions at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2014/05/12/introducing-microsoft-azure-file-service.aspx#faq7 to create the new Azure Storage File system. I tried the steps and got the exact same error. So we both seem to have been doing the same thing incorrectly, which was a little unlikely unless the documentation was in-correct. …

Currently the ability to create Azure Managed Cache Service Namespace from Portal is disabled, however end users can still create the Managed Cache namespace using the latest PowerShell CmdLet. So in this blog I will provide the step-by-step instruction on creating Managed Cache Service Namespace by leveraging latest version PowerShell CmdLet. 1. Please download the…